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Plan Bleu

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Research works
14
fractional, all time
Citations
163
11.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
27.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
31%
world 40%
International
15%
world 18%
Plan Bleu

Not ranked overall: Plan Bleu is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Plan Bleu work in?

In all years, 45% of research at Plan Bleu is in Social Sciences, 43% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (43%), Environmental Science (20%), Engineering (17%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 6 fractional works · 44.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 43.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 23.0% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 13.5% of its workDevelopment: 1 fractional works · 7.0% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysical Sciences: 6 fractional works · 42.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 3 fractional works · 20.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 11.0% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 17.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 8.1% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 5.3% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 3.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 3.5% of its workGeneral Energy: 0 fractional works · 3.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 12.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 12.7% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 1 fractional works · 7.0% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 5.0% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workALL ITS WORKPlan Bleu14fractional works, all years
Life Sciences13%Physical Sciences43%Social Sciences45%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 3 domains and 8 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences643.4%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.7%
    3. Arts and Humanities00.6%
    1. Environmental Science320.2%
    2. Engineering217.5%
    3. Energy03.5%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences01.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences212.7%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

What are the most cited papers from Plan Bleu?

The most cited paper from Plan Bleu is "Current state of Mediterranean water resources and future trends under climatic and anthropogenic changes" (Marianne Milano, Denis Ruelland, Sara García Fernández et al., 2013), with 173 citations. Next come "Modeling the current and future capacity of water resources to meet water demands in the Ebro basin" (111) and "Impacts of ocean acidification in a warming Mediterranean Sea: An overview" (107).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Current state of Mediterranean water resources and future trends under climatic and anthropogenic changes Marianne Milano, Denis Ruelland, Sara García Fernández et al. · Hydrological Sciences Journal Open access 5 Mar 2013 173
2 Modeling the current and future capacity of water resources to meet water demands in the Ebro basin Marianne Milano, Denis Ruelland, Alain Dezetter et al. · Journal of Hydrology 18 Jul 2013 111
3 Impacts of ocean acidification in a warming Mediterranean Sea: An overview Thomas Lacoue‐Labarthe, Paulo A.L.D. Nunes, Patrizia Ziveri et al. · Regional Studies in Marine Science Open access 21 Dec 2015 107
4 Facing climatic and anthropogenic changes in the Mediterranean basin: What will be the medium-term impact on water stress? Marianne Milano, Denis Ruelland, Sara García Fernández et al. · Comptes Rendus Géoscience 31 Aug 2012 88
5 Restoration ecology of coastal lagoons: new methods for the prediction of ecological trajectories and economic valuation Rutger de Wit, Hélène Rey‐Valette, Juliette Balavoine et al. · Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems Open access 19 Oct 2015 54
All 31 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Plan Bleu publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Marine and coastal plant biology, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Urban Green Space and Health and Urban Design and Spatial Analysis.

Marine and coastal plant biology: 0 fractional worksMarine Biology and Ecology Research: 0 fractional worksUrban Green Space and Health: 0 fractional worksUrban Design and Spatial Analysis: 0 fractional worksMarine Ecology and Invasive Species: 0 fractional worksArchitecture and Cultural Influences: 0 fractional works
OceanographyHealth, Toxicology and MutagenesisBuilding and ConstructionGlobal and Planetary Change1 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Marine and coastal plant biology Oceanography 0 works
  2. 2 Marine Biology and Ecology Research Oceanography 0 works
  3. 3 Urban Green Space and Health Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 0 works
  4. 4 Urban Design and Spatial Analysis Building and Construction 0 works
  5. 5 Marine Ecology and Invasive Species Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  6. 6 Architecture and Cultural Influences Archeology 0 works
  7. 7 Agriculture and Rural Development Research Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 0 works
  8. 8 International Maritime Law Issues Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 0 works
  9. 9 Coastal and Marine Management Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 0 works
  10. 10 Maritime Navigation and Safety Ocean Engineering 0 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available30.7%not open69.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors15.4%domestic only84.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Plan Bleu's research output changed?

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Plan Bleu as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000025% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Plan Bleu over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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